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Latest Review Posted Preset Tele-Astranar, Spiratone, Photax, Prinz-gal 400mm F6.3
It's not the best 400mm in the world, but it is very inexpensive and very simply built.


Mine is the Spiratone Pulra-Coat Sharpshooter. It came with a case, a hood, and a 2x Spiratone Plura-Coat Teleconverter. It's fun and funky. Shooting handheld is pretty hard and demands blazing sunlight. Using a tripod isn't necessarily going to fix things unless your tripod is very sturdy. In my experience so far, tripod vibration can be worse than handheld with this very long lens. My best night shots were achieved using a tripod and a wireless remote in mirror-lock-up mode.


The preset aperture means you're dealing with a manual diaphragm, which makes taking pictures of moving subjects tricky. You open the aperture, focus, then close it back down again. The aperture controls consist of two rings: one to open it up to 6.3 or close it down to the preset, and another to change the preset to fixed values between 6.3 and 32. The many aperture blades mean the bokeh is always round.


The lens is sharper and less prone to purple fringing than my Tamron 70-300 at 300mm, particularly if adding a teleconverter to each lens.


Several images using this lens can be found by searching for the "Spiratone Plura-Coat Sharpshooter 1:6.3 400mm" tag on my Flickr.


Here are a few samples. Other than the second largest moon shot (which used stacked telecoverters and needed a little brightening) these are all straight out of the camera:


Handheld, nine stories up


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